{"id":49,"date":"2004-02-23T09:38:50","date_gmt":"2004-02-23T14:38:50","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=49"},"modified":"2004-02-23T09:38:50","modified_gmt":"2004-02-23T14:38:50","slug":"m3-stands-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2004\/02\/23\/m3-stands-up","title":{"rendered":"M3 stands up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Of interest would be the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2004\/2\/22\/amusing-sunday-reading\">amusing Sunday reading<\/a>. I spoke to Mr. Adlin from M3; and no, no personal vendetta against he or his company. He&#8217;s admitted to the mistakes in the article, so let&#8217;s put it aside as that.<\/p>\n<p>They started as a small business, and have grown large enough to be funded by the Ministry of Finance! A promise of RM15,000 for 10,000 OpenOffice.org CDs is up for grabs too. They&#8217;re certain they&#8217;re here to stay (which is great!), and after the half-hour conversation over the phone, I say, let&#8217;s plan the RM15,000 usage well, and let&#8217;s market OOo (and Linux) a lot better. They sell Fedora Core CDs too (but admitted to not having a usable support structure in place). 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